State v. . Grass’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 1972 · most notably State v. . Litteral (1947), State v. Hamer (1954)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Confessions are to be taken as prima facie voluntary, and admissible in evidence, unless the party against whom they are offered allege and show facts authorizing a legal inference to the contrary”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The competency of an alleged confession is a preliminary question for the trial court. S. v. Andrew , 61 N.C. 205 , to be determined in the manner pointed out in S. v. Whitener , 191 N.C. 659 , 132 S.E. 603 , and the court's ruling thereon is not reviewable on appeal, unless accompanied by some imputed error of law or legal inference. S. v. Manning , 221 N.C. 70 , 18 S.E.2d 821 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Brooks“open and frank responses by innocent persons arrested under misapprehension are generally powerful aids in securing their prompt discharge from custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Thompson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.